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virtual worlds 1.0

How do virtual worlds build community?

by justingibbs on February 3, 2010

More virtual worlds and virtual world projects are shutting down. Some may remember Google Lively died a year ago. More recently it’s been vSide, Metaplace, and now Project Wonderland. It really does seem to be the end of Virtual Worlds 1.0. I and a few others have even begun to ponder what will be part [...]

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The end of Virtual Worlds 1.0, now onto 2.0

by justingibbs on December 22, 2009

Another Virtual World 1.0 is shutting down. This time Raph Koster’s Metaplace.com. This after vSide shut down earlier in the year and Google Lively last year. Playing off of Web2.0 I would group these and current worlds under virtual worlds 1.0. They’re similar to Infoseek, Excite, AOL, and Yahoo! – Web 1.0. A few things defined [...]

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60 Days of WoW

by justingibbs on April 12, 2009

Seeing one virtual world after another fail is kind of depressing and really, how much can you learn from failure? It’s not all failure, some virtual worlds like World of Warcraft are thriving. What did WoW do to separate it from the rest of the lot? A strong context is certainly one aspect of its [...]

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